Renee Olstead Quotes
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
Quotes to Explore
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.
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I'm a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
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I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.
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I went seven years between 2002 and 2009 without winning. Then I did win in '09.
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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
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I think I was probably able to flip characters in my head as if I was playing different roles in order to write the different people because you kind of have to be one person, and inhabit him and write from his voice and be her and write her voice. So I think that helped.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.
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I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
